Flying Dog Tire Bite Golden Ale

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Kölsch
Frederick, Maryland USA

Pours a crystal clear (and I mean crystal clear) pale yellow with a thin snowwhite head. Smells grassy and lightly sweet, like white grape juice (although the grape smell is very faint). Some feather light herbal hops. Grassy and lightly sour in the mouth. Some very light hops but enough to permeate the light body. Crisp. Mild hoppy finish with a lingering crispy sour bitterness. Ok, lingering is too strong a word but it’s there. Uncomplicated and pretty refreshing I’d say. I am no kolsch expert but this tastes alot like the couple of kolches I’ve had in my lifetime. Not bad. A good lawnmower beer or chillin-on-your-backporch-in-the-hot-Atlanta-sun beer. Or maybe I just like it because it reminds me a bit of Ballantine. A bit.

A very smooth beer. Perfect for the summertime. Best served extremely cold.

Yellow-gold color with small white head. Tastes slightly metallic but very light and creamy. Kind of a sharp aftertaste.

Big hop bouguet from a golden body with a nice snow white head. Malt/wheat/toast flavor with a nice hop bite at teh end, medium to light mouth feel. Great session beer.

I was pleasantly surprised with this one, due to the nice hops and yeast flavors.

From the tap this beer poured a pretty, clear, golden color. Not quite sure of the flavor with this being the 2nd Kolsch I’ve ever tried., but i enjoyed it. It was light and smooth on the palate and very drinkable.

i don’t understand all the hate on this beer. very drinkable, tons of worse beers out there. drank straight from the bottle, may rewrite tomorrow but screw it. first taste is fruity, labeled as slightly more hoppy than malty but i’d say the malt overpowers the hops. Sweet, reminds me of a more subtle magic hat #9. Extreamly pale and refreshing, nothing bad about this beer that i can see minus the fairly one dimensional taste. had much worse that has scored much higher, plus the artwork is great.

Poured a very nice pale golden color. An attractive white head formed on top and it lasted the whole time I drank the beer. The lacing was good as well. The aroma smelled sweet and grainy. The flavor started out nicely grainy followed by some hops. It finisheed with a nice grain flavor.